Hampshire.
10. St Mary’s, Winchester.
1536. Henry VIII’s commissioners, who visited the house 15th May, found here twenty-six “chyldren of lordys, knyghttes and gentylmen brought up yn the saym monastery.” For the list of names (given in Dugdale, Mon. II, p. 457), see above p. [266].
11. Romsey.
1311. Bishop Woodlock decreed “There shall not be in the dormitory with the nuns any children, either boys or girls, nor shall they be led by the nuns into the choir, while the divine office is celebrated.” Liveing, Records of Romsey Abbey, p. 104.
*1387. William of Wykeham enjoins (in an injunction dealing with various manifestations of the vitium proprietatis) “Moreover let not the nuns henceforth presume to call their own rooms or pupils (discipulas), hitherto assigned to them or so assigned in future, on pretext of such assignation, which is rather to be deemed a matter of will than of necessity; nathless it is lawful for the abbess to assign such rooms and pupils according to merit as she thinks fit, etc., etc.” But this more probably refers to young nuns or novices. The word discipula is used in this sense in Alnwick’s visitation of Gracedieu. (See above, p. [80].)
1284. Archbishop Peckham forbids boarders, adding “Let not virgins be admitted to the habit and veil (induendae virgines et velandae) before the completion of their fifteenth year and let not any boy be permitted to be educated with the nuns.” Reg. Epis. J. Peckham, II, p. 653.
Herefordshire.
13. Lymbrook.